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Show THE CITIZEN 14 measurably more vul liable to her than our whose Pacific coast. Here, too, we have the explanation of the Siberian situation. We may re: monstrate, but we can do nothing. We can not turn the Japanese out of Siberia. It is too far away: as Japan can not back up her wishes on' this side of the Pacific with force, just so surely can not the United States make a similar move on the other side of the Pacific. Japan knows the futility of landing troops in California. Our war and navy departments know the futility of landing troops at Sakhalin to oust the Japanese from Itussia. Here we come upon the one simple explanation of the lamentable breakdown of our once glorious open-dopolicy in China; our shrewd inaction with regard to Japans Irresistible invasion and absorption of Kowe are now rea, whose last death-throhearing; our failure to back up the Chinese delegation in the peace conference in the face of outrageous demands pushed and achieved by the astute elder statesg men; and our pointless about our Asiatic policy, so suavely ignored and later misinterpreted by Tokyo. Here, too, we have an equally complete and rational explanation of Japans lieda-lon- g conquests on the mainland of Asia, her ruthless demands upon China during the world war, and her genteel paper protests to Washington against the California land law, followed by her efforts to keep all negotiations and the new "Gentlemens Agreement secret. So surely or es letter-writin- A threat of war from Japan would be received with a polite smile in America. , A similar threat of war from America would be received with a polite smile in Japan. i The plain truth is that the Japanese government is in a most painful dilemma. If it stands consistently upon its avowed rights and its resolve to win the full rights of emigration and citizenship, which it has repeatedly assured its own people it would do, it will inevitably expose its own Incompetence to secure those rights; and such an exposure would certainly precipitate a grave political crisis in Japan. If, on the other hand, it accepts the fact that it can not force the hand of California, still less of the United States, not even by military aggression, it will then consistently acquiesce in discriminatory legislation against its subjects on our Pacific coast; and this w.ill infuriate the ardent nationalists and the jingoes of Japan and perhaps lead to the overthrow of the present government. Its one easy way out is to conceal this dilemma from its own people. And, as luck will hmave ity our own state department can readily be persuaded to do its share in this covennnt of silence; for it finds itself in precisely the same sort of a dilemma wtlh regard to its Asiatic policy. Our old and beloved open door policy in China and our hazy fervor for (except in those cases where we want to do somebodys determining for ...in, as in Mexico and and Haiti) have both become, so far as Asia Is concerned, idle rhetoric, and for the best of all reasons, namely, our physical Inability to practice what we preach. Our foreign trade interests yie eager to see the open door policy maintained in China, and powerful financial interests are equully anxious to have a door now closed pried open the door to Siberia. self-determinat- EXCEEDING INSTRUCTIONS. Employer "cfeorge, I want. to speak to you regarding your attentions to I Miss Sweetly during office hours. engaged you as billing clerk. No cooing was mentioned. Thats all for the present. London Mail. he has told Joseph "Civilization, MR. PARADOX CHESTERTON Mul-vane- y, the New York American, "went wrong in the sixteenth and sevenAmericans will welcome as their teenth.; centuries, broadly . speaking; a splendid mis-- i very own the paradoxes of Gilbert K. The renaissance .was Chesterton. So the Brooklyn Eagre take and. the reformation was asor--t v declares apropos of the visit to our did, mistake. He continues: - "Civilization lost, or, rather, gaVe shores of the English writer and lecturer who has been variously termed up, most oi the good old medieval1 "the prime minister of fairyland, a. things, from which men had inherited' any: benefits. They gave up the bentremendous trifler, and the greatest paradox-juggle- r since Oscar Wilde. efits of paganism, too, when they embraced Christianity completely. Men "Superficially, the Eagle remarks, "he is a jpker, but fundamentally he is a gave up the simple human qualities, of things, and the good democrat, and his contact with the natural order the rampant democracy of the land of organizations which had developed the recall and the referendum should naturally. Civilization threw away ail these be good for both him and for us. That a great maker of paradoxes in things tor the sake of rushing, madly literature should have a kindly feeling after something else without knowing for a nation which is a great maker clearly what it was rushing for, nor of paradoxes in fact, was to have been where. The best of men rushed after expected. Soon after his arrival Mr. gold. But everybody rushed and ran somewhere. Chesterton put his finger on the para"Well, weve had a long run for our dox of prohibition in the land of the free, and it will not take him long, oir money, havent we? Three or four newspapers think, to discover the syco- hundred years of it, and the world has phancy of politicians in the home of gone to smash. We cant get out of the very it now without going back-tthe brave. Mr. Chestertons first lecture in New beginning, the point at which we to run wild, and starting all over York was entitled "The Ignorance of the Educated, 'and was keyed to a text again. "The right remedy is a better redisfrom Josh Billings that has always been popular in America: "It is better tribution of private property,' so that not to know so much than to know so every man will have something and a many things that aint so. There is fair chance. Especially is this so in no man living, the Boston Transcript the matter of land. Great' organiza.says of Chesterton, who can give a tions should be divided so that the truer picture of the follies of the wise. basic principle of modern life would Another of Mr. Chestertons lectures, be that of the peasant farmer, it would be vastly better that way than entitled, "Shall We Abolish the Inevto turn all power and property over to itable? is summed up in the sentence: "Theres only one certainty in life, and the labor unions, or, what is worse, the that is that nothing is certain. When state. Mr. Chesterton is the author of he was young, he tells us. "men said,, and I suppose we all agreed, that the thirty odd volumes. I am a journalwhole tendency of smaller states was ist, hes ays, "and so am vastly ignorto be swallowed up, until there would ant of many things, but be&ause I am be only one or two great countries. a journalist I write and talk about them all. His works include fantastic People would look at the map of Europe and see how sporadic and weak tales; poems; detective stories; biowere the little states. It was undergraphical studies of Browning, Blake, stood that Serbia and Roumania were Dickens and Shaw; books in defense to be absorbed by the Austrian Empire of orthodoxy and monogamic marriage. These writings, as Muriel Harris and Denmark and Holland by the German empire. It was hoped, even, that points out in the New York Globe, may after a certain time Ireland would be- be found everywhere. They are transcome a part of the British empire, so lated into many languages. In England high ran the hopes of the imperial he is read by the subtle and the alike. spirit at that time. But Chesterton has lived to see the ruler of one of the Viewed from the personal side, enChesterton owes much of his hold upon great powers make the attempt to large his system to include one of the his friends to what Muriel Harris calls smaller states, Belgium, and he did not the eternal boy that is in him. She receive 'the encouragement that he writes: "There is something very might reasonably have expected. "It simple about the huge man after all. He likes dressing up, for one thing, might be said, Mr. Chesterton remarks, "that the reception was cold. as much as any boy. His cloak and Your country and mine woke up to the hat are part of the dressing up joke; idea that that sort of thing might be so was the Don Balthasar portrait; so inevitable but that it was intolerable. a little is the Dr. JohfTson pose. Mr. Chesterton rejects not only the Chesterton is often compared wtih inevitable but the existing. He is a Dr. Johnson, but in reality he is like revolutionist, it seems, and, he no one but himself. In a sense he is might have added, a conservative revonly now coming into his own. olutionist. His plea is fundamentally for an abandonment of "progress, as IMPORTANT DETAIL OMITTED. that word is ordinarily understood. He thinks that Calvin and Marx were both In a recent film one of the charmisleadrs, and that a restoration of acters is skinned alive. The realism "Catholicism combined with some form is rather marred by not representing of mysticism is what the world needs. him as a taxpayer. London' Opinion. . MABETS APPOINTMEH Following are the appoini made by Governor Mabey: , '- . o be--ga- ; n 1 . un-subt- le ' . i . ) , t ..Insurance commissioner, John Walker of Salt.Lake. , To seive 1, 192 j., April 1, 1921, until April It Wil Board of. .equalization, Bailey, Nephi; Lorenzo Pett, 13i City; O. J. Grimes, Salt Lake. Toi from April 1, 1921, until April l, Land commissioner, John T. royd, Fountain Green. To serve fJp April 1, 1921, until April 1, 1925. m Fish and game commissioner, Da H. Madsen, Salt Lake. To serve ftJ" March 15, 1921, until March 15, 1925 m Public utilities commission, A. I Hey wood, of Ogden; To serve frof April 1, 1921, until April 1, 1927. Industrial commission; Shane, Beaver. To serve from April 1921, until April 1, 1927. Agricultural College board of tr&' tees, Anthony W. Ivins, Salt Lake;! L. Judd, Salt 'Lake;" John D. Petenj: Sail Brigham City; E. - O'. Howard, Lake;1 Dr. O. H. Budge; Logan; J.R m Waters,' Salt Lake; C. P. Cardon, L&f., a! gan. To serve from 1921 until 1925. id University of Utah (board of re- w! gents) , L. R. Anderson, Manti; Ernes iii Jeannette Mrs. Salt Lake; Bamberger, A. Hyde, Salt Lake; W. L. Wattis, Of iii den; T. N. Taylor, Provo; D. 0. hi fill the unexpired Kay, Ogden; (to term of Anthon H. Lund, deceased); fl Frank Evans, Salt Lake. To serve fron il 1921 until 1925. 0 Industrial School (board of trustees) jp I Frank Merrill, Brigham City; Mn a Eunice Bowman, Ogden. To sent t from April 1, 1921, until April 1, 1921 'a o Uniformity of legislation, W. H. Salt Lake; C. R. Hollingsworth, o f Ogden; W. H. Leary, Salt Lake. To serve from April 1, 1921, until April . : 4 l Fol-lan- 1, 1923. School for Deaf and Blind, Mrs. J. A Howell, Ogden; Robert I. Burton, Ogden. To serve from April 1, 1921, u. ntil April 1, 1925. State Fair association, Enos Ben-nio- Vernal; James E. Ellison, J. F. Allen, Draper; W. D. Livingston, Salt Lake; Henry W. Lunt, Cedar City; J. H. Manderfield, Salt Lake; I. N. Pierce, Ogden; Mrs. Justin R. Davis, Salt Lake. To serve from April 1, 1921, until April 1, 1925. Utah Art Institute, eGorge Bear, Coalville; Miss Mabel Frazier. Shu Lake; Carl Scott, Salt Lake; William f Denn, Salt Lake;; Carrie Knapp, Dgden. To serve from April 1, 1921, to r April 1, 1925.Board of Corrections James lvers, I Salt Lake; Samuel W. Stewart, Salt Lake. To serve from April 1, 1921, to April 1, 1925. Board of Education, Carl R. vla cusen, Price; Mrs. C. H. McMuhon. Salt' Lake. To serve from' April L j Lay-ton- ; 1 - 1 - I 1921, to April 1, 1927. Board of Health, Dr. S. S. Burnham. Bountiful; Dr. Clarence Snow, Lake. To serve from April 1, to April 1, 1928. Salt 1921. |